The government announced on the 1st that the border will be closed from the 5th onwards and all people will be banned from entering and leaving the country, except for special circumstances such as the delivery of living goods, and at the same time, restrictions on movement within the country will be strengthened. The government has announced the closure of the border from the 5th to the 5th.
The government of Chile announced the closure of the border again. (Photo taken from Ministerio de Salud Chile Facebook)
The government of the Republic of China has announced the closure of the Chilean border since the 5th of this month. In addition, the curfew has been extended and the number of times to buy essential goods has been restricted.
Chile has been actively negotiating with pharmaceutical companies since the middle of last year, and the first 21,000 doses of the vaccine were obtained from Pfizer in December last year and were immediately administered to front-line health care workers; at the end of January this year, another 4 million doses were obtained from China’s Kexing Pharmaceuticals, and the national vaccination program began in February.
According to the New York Times, Chile has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world and is even expected to be one of the first few countries to achieve mass immunization, but some experts believe that the country’s rapid and efficient vaccination campaign has given Chileans a false sense of security, leading to a sharp increase in the number of diagnoses and deaths and causing the health care system to be overloaded.
Dr. Denise Garrett, an epidemiologist at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, D.C., notes that vaccines do not immediately stop new infections when transmission rates are high, and that as new, more infectious variants of the virus emerge, it is unlikely to see a significant impact until the vast majority of the population is vaccinated. impact.
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